While many businesses outsource payroll and billing, most have yet to reap the advantages of integrating data and managing business-critical functions through a single, Web-enabled portal. Vendors now offer secure, easy to use Web-based tools for the management of a wide range of business relationships. ADP TotalSource, for example, provides a suite of online human resources, including forms and reports for employers.
As a company transitions from a product-centric strategy to a more customer-focused one, customer relationship management (CRM) and sales-force automation (SFA) become keys to accelerated growth. Maximizer Enterprise 8 is a robust sales automation and CRM solution that can link new entries with a specific sales strategy. By using the application's eStore Manager, you can also create an e-commerce site based on your Maximizer database.
Integrated Process Management
Rapid growth can make it difficult to manage essential administrative and support functions while maintaining a clear focus on your core business mission. Exact Software's e-Synergy. provides a complete business process management solution by integrating all your workplace information (sales/CRM, accounting, HR, marketing, production, procurement, engineering, etc.) into a single, easily searchable database. It enables a real-time, accurate view of financials, workflow, documents and asset information, thereby revealing inefficiencies and unintended redundancies.
By connecting budgets, resources, documents, and tasks to projects, e-Synergy. enables effective collaboration and project management. Through the product's Web-based portal, your entire value chain (i.e., employees, business partners, suppliers, and customers) can gain access to view and modify information based on their roles and access authorization.
Web Conferencing
Web conferencing is a powerful, cost-effective way to 'meet with prospective clients, update salespeople, or brief members of the press. It combines the personal interaction of a conference call with the power of Web-based presentations and collaboration. Major vendors offer free trials—a great way to check out these time saving tools.
Microsoft Live Meeting offers easy-to-use interactivity in a secure, reliable online environment. In addition to the usual support for PowerPoint with live audio, it offers one-touch recording and playback, and can be scaled to suit small collaborative workgroups or giant public presentations.
WebEx continues to be a leader in supplying cost-effective Web conferencing to SMBs, with a well-deserved reputation for ease-of-use and versatility. It provides simple but powerful tools for presentations, document sharing, chat, and other common meeting needs.
GoToMeeting enables presentations and application sharing from a desktop with 'easy-as-e-mail simplicity. With its flat-fee pricing, subscribers are encouraged to meet online as often and for as long as they want, without the worry of overtime charges.
A range of Web conferencing services are available from several companies including AT Conference, Raindance, and WebMeetPro. Secure, easy-to-use, scalable Web-based solutions are a good way to improve management and ramp up your business productivity.
Sidebar: Exact e-Synergy Integrates Your Business to Drive Success
The e-Synergy® solution from Exact Software™ seamlessly integrates data silos across your organization into one database for increased productivity, improved communications, and technology-related savings.
By reducing complexity, e-Synergy streamlines workplace information making it easier to find, manage, share, and keep secure.
Lower costs, reduced sales cycle, and real-time decision-making are all the result of using e-Synergy.
Learn how e-Synergy customers achieve efficiency at www.exactamerica.com/inc.
